Nuclear

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Ukraine-France, EDF-Energoatom Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

Ukraine's Energoatom and France's EDF sign a cooperation agreement, while the two countries have renewed their cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclea…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

IAEA Mission Reviews Sri Lanka Siting Process

The seven-day Site and External Events Design Review Service (SEED) mission reviewed Sri Lanka's selection process to identify potential sites for the const…

SMR

Rosatom and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Have Signed an Agreement on Yakut Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plant Capacity Loading

Rosatom State Corporation and the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) signed on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum–202…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Rosatom Mechanical Engineering Division Shipped Key Equipment for Chinese NPPs

Izhora Plants (part of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division) have shipped five units of equipment manufactured for two NPPs of Russian design current…

Nuclear Reactor

EBRD Chernobyl Funding Plan Ratified by Ukraine's Parliament

Members of Ukraine's parliament have backed a law approving the framework agreement between Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development…

SMR

Construction of Finnish Pilot SMR Plant to Start in 2025

Steady Energy said it is set to start construction of its first LDR-50 district heating reactor pilot plant in Finland next year, with potential sites including…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

National Poll Shows Shift in Australian Nuclear Opinion

Australian attitudes towards energy sources have shifted markedly, the 20th edition of the Lowy Institute's annual poll has found, with six in ten now suppo…

Nuclear Reactor

Dutch Government Supports Four New Nuclear Reactors

The incoming new government of the Netherlands reportedly will support construction of at least four new utility-scale nuclear power reactors, as part of a prog…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Dutch State Could Buy Share in Borssele Plant

The government of the Netherlands has said it will consider acquiring a stake in the Borssele nuclear power plant should a decision be made to extend the operat…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Regulator's Safety Goal for Atucha Long-Term Operation Project

Argentina's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, ARN) says that planned upgrades and improvements to allow a 20-year extension to th…

Nuclear Decommissioning

DOE-Designed Railcar Cleared for Use

The Atlas railcar - developed by the US Department of Energy to transport used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste - has been certified by the Associa…

Solar Power Plant

Big Solar Projects Launch in Idaho as US Nuclear Test Sites Go Green

An undated publicity photograph released to Reuters on November 8, 2011 shows the "material and fuels complex" facility at the The Idaho National Laboratory, a …

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Announces Novel Used Fuel Processing Technology

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced it has developed an innovative crystallisation refining technology for the purification and separation of nu…

Uranium Project

Inaugural ISL Tests Completed at Third Canadian Uranium Deposit

A test programme at the Midwest uranium project in Saskatchewan has validated that the Midwest Main deposit possesses the characteristics necessary for an in-si…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

CNNC Extends Cooperation With ENEC, EDF

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) on strategic cooperation in t…